
The Building of her House 
carpenters do when they no longer 
need the scaffold,—tear it down. 
When she comes to a scaffold thread 
that is in the way she takes hold of it 
with her front feet, pulls it up to her 
mouth and snips it off with her teeth ; 
then she rolls it into a ball with her 
palps, chews it awhile, and drops LB al i 
it to the pround When she nears \\ 
the centre of the wheel she fast- bier 
ens a thread, leaving a hub of if | 
about two inches in diame- | 
ter, where she settles her- eR 3 Ae ze 
self, head downward, to ay, : | ze 



rest, for her house AYR 
A Tite 
is done. WHT | 
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\ Mrs. Epeira’s finished house Sy 
a (A) The private chamber VY 

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